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K. A. Applegate
K. A. Applegate
American Writer
Born: Oct 9, 1956
Animal Cats Love Me Think Writing
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. K. A. Applegate
Hate Witness Animals Down Circus See Caged Loss Captivity Elephants Streets
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan. K. A. Applegate
Book Dog Drawings He Like Look Mix Model Chihuahua Role Role Model Precisely Bob Stan Rescue
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can. K. A. Applegate
Needs Obligation Care Animals Think Well Understand Real Them Captivity
I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it. K. A. Applegate
You Book Will Become Think Say Totally Magical Point Invested Writers Reach Most Sure Becomes Real Where Story Each Suddenly Eventually Start
I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance! K. A. Applegate
Win First Believe Written First-Person Got Person Romance Who
I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that. K. A. Applegate
Time Me Age Writing Try Be Brave Long Long Time Become Young Sweet Other Enough Took Valley Books Way Ghost Out Kind Scared Writer Fail Like Wrote Very Brave Young Age Public Really Disney Series Published Started
I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings. K. A. Applegate
Cats Three Mention Dogs Up Grew Younger Sibling
I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer. K. A. Applegate
Love Myself Writing Cats Fighting Every Easily Distracted TV Trick TV Show Computer Am Very Really Use Show Keep Rainbow Two
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. K. A. Applegate
Music Symphony Tend Write Toward Lean Opposed End Short Brief Chamber Things
I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot. K. A. Applegate
Animal Think Characters Unpredictable Rather Adult Share Particularly Readers Readily Vulnerability Because Lot Younger Certain Who Connect Humans
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February. K. A. Applegate
Love February New Come Excuse York Any New York
When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be. K. A. Applegate
Financial Kids More Struggles Than Want Them Much Aware Things
It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of. K. A. Applegate
Food Me Natural Drive Way Hunger Kids Would Would-Be About Simply Talk Occurred Which Them Natural Way Many Aware
I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper. K. A. Applegate
Mom Me Crazy Think Local All-Around About Catalogue Like Wrote Around Selling Michigan Ordered Story Them Newspaper Bred

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